Nikita Mandryka (b. 1940), a native of Bizerte, Tunisia, studied in France, where he became a well-known cartoonist. He contributed to many comic-strip magazines, including L´Echo des Savanes, Pilote and Pif Gadget. In 1965 he created the character of Concombre Masqué.

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